From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2383 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 08:18:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29045 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 08:18:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:13:03 -0400 From: Cedric Veilleux In-reply-to: <20030410092759.14d8e24c.spider@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-id: <200304100413.03618.cedric@neopeak.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410092759.14d8e24c.spider@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: ecf46eaa-a04b-4638-8211-76f9450a783e X-Archives-Hash: 148efd332d48efe8f9bab074ae2a7a3e We would need portage to generate packages with an additional "manifest" fi= le=20 in it or in a package format that could hold meta-information in some way=20 such as: USE flags enabled in this package (only the ones relevant to the particulia= r=20 package) Portage's PROFILE (default-x86-1.4 for example) CHOST / CFLAGS used to compile the package, if relevant. Then a binary enabled portage would contact a master server and ask for a=20 binary package compiled with the right combination of USE flags, profile an= d=20 CHOST and if it exists download it and install it, and if it does not compi= le=20 it from the sources.. Cedric Le 10 Avril 2003 03:27, Spider a =E9crit : > begin quote > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 00:13:30 +0000 > > Noah Justin Norris wrote: > > Is there any interest to start a binary release of gentoo with > > precompiled > > binaries. Im talking the entire source tree i know many people that > > would switch to gentoo if they would not have to compile every thing > > from source . not everyone has the fastest computer out there. > > Well, thats one thing thats an interesting idea, another would be to > track our "stable" tree and keep updating the system of GRP binaries to > provide for this.. do note that this means that a system cannot be used > for testing things in a "normal" way (installing odd things that might > be dependencies or not) > > > To do the whole tree as binary is an impossibility, if nothing else so > for license issues. But continuously providing it could be a welcome > service. > > I know I'd welcome it, as a far simpler way of installing and keeping my > celeron running.. But I think it'd require some more portage hacking > to "make it work", at least the following. > > a) package signing > b) configured default binary locations > c) binary-vs-source preference > > > to do more than one set of USE flags would be overkill imo, and harder > to implement in "true" form. > > > //Spider -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list